General Notes
Archivers and Compressors
Commons Compress calls all formats that compress a single
stream of data compressor formats while all formats that
collect multiple entries inside a single (potentially
compressed) archive are archiver formats.
The compressor formats supported are gzip, bzip2, XZ, LZMA,
Pack200, DEFLATE, Brotli, DEFLATE64, ZStandard and Z, the archiver formats are 7z, ar, arj,
cpio, dump, tar and zip. Pack200 is a special case as it can
only compress JAR files.
We currently only provide read support for arj,
dump, Brotli, DEFLATE64 and Z. arj can only read uncompressed archives, 7z can read
archives with many compression and encryption algorithms
supported by 7z but doesn't support encryption when writing
archives.
Buffering
The stream classes all wrap around streams provided by the
calling code and they work on them directly without any
additional buffering. On the other hand most of them will
benefit from buffering so it is highly recommended that
users wrap their stream
in Buffered(In|Out)putStream
s before
using the Commons Compress API.
Factories
Compress provides factory methods to create input/output
streams based on the names of the compressor or archiver
format as well as factory methods that try to guess the
format of an input stream.
To create a compressor writing to a given output by using
the algorithm name:
CompressorOutputStream gzippedOut = new CompressorStreamFactory()
.createCompressorOutputStream(CompressorStreamFactory.GZIP, myOutputStream);
Make the factory guess the input format for a given
archiver stream:
ArchiveInputStream input = new ArchiveStreamFactory()
.createArchiveInputStream(originalInput);
Make the factory guess the input format for a given
compressor stream:
CompressorInputStream input = new CompressorStreamFactory()
.createCompressorInputStream(originalInput);
Note that there is no way to detect the LZMA or Brotli formats so only
the two-arg version of
createCompressorInputStream
can be used. Prior
to Compress 1.9 the .Z format hasn't been auto-detected
either.
Restricting Memory Usage
Starting with Compress 1.14
CompressorStreamFactory
has an optional
constructor argument that can be used to set an upper limit of
memory that may be used while decompressing or compressing a
stream. As of 1.14 this setting only affects decompressing Z,
XZ and LZMA compressed streams.
Since Compress 1.19 SevenZFile
also has an
optional constructor to pass an upper memory limit which is supported
in LZMA compressed streams. Since Compress 1.21 this setting
also is taken into account when reading the metadata of an archive.
For the Snappy and LZ4 formats the amount of memory used
during compression is directly proportional to the window
size.
Statistics
Starting with Compress 1.17 most of the
CompressorInputStream
implementations as well as
ZipArchiveInputStream
and all streams returned by
ZipFile.getInputStream
implement the
InputStreamStatistics
interface. SevenZFile
provides statistics for the
current entry via the
getStatisticsForCurrentEntry
method. This
interface can be used to track progress while extracting a
stream or to detect potential zip bombs
when the compression ratio becomes suspiciously large.
Archivers
Unsupported Features
Many of the supported formats have developed different
dialects and extensions and some formats allow for features
(not yet) supported by Commons Compress.
The ArchiveInputStream
class provides a method
canReadEntryData
that will return false if
Commons Compress can detect that an archive uses a feature
that is not supported by the current implementation. If it
returns false you should not try to read the entry but skip
over it.
Entry Names
All archive formats provide meta data about the individual
archive entries via instances of ArchiveEntry
(or
rather subclasses of it). When reading from an archive the
information provided the getName
method is the
raw name as stored inside of the archive. There is no
guarantee the name represents a relative file name or even a
valid file name on your target operating system at all. You
should double check the outcome when you try to create file
names from entry names.
Common Extraction Logic
Apart from 7z all formats provide a subclass of
ArchiveInputStream
that can be used to create an
archive. For 7z SevenZFile
provides a similar API
that does not represent a stream as our implementation
requires random access to the input and cannot be used for
general streams. The ZIP implementation can benefit a lot from
random access as well, see the zip
page for details.
Assuming you want to extract an archive to a target
directory you'd call getNextEntry
, verify the
entry can be read, construct a sane file name from the entry's
name, create a File
and write all contents to
it - here IOUtils.copy
may come handy. You do so
for every entry until getNextEntry
returns
null
.
A skeleton might look like:
File targetDir = ...
try (ArchiveInputStream i = ... create the stream for your format, use buffering...) {
ArchiveEntry entry = null;
while ((entry = i.getNextEntry()) != null) {
if (!i.canReadEntryData(entry)) {
// log something?
continue;
}
String name = fileName(targetDir, entry);
File f = new File(name);
if (entry.isDirectory()) {
if (!f.isDirectory() && !f.mkdirs()) {
throw new IOException("failed to create directory " + f);
}
} else {
File parent = f.getParentFile();
if (!parent.isDirectory() && !parent.mkdirs()) {
throw new IOException("failed to create directory " + parent);
}
try (OutputStream o = Files.newOutputStream(f.toPath())) {
IOUtils.copy(i, o);
}
}
}
}
where the hypothetical fileName
method is
written by you and provides the absolute name for the file
that is going to be written on disk. Here you should perform
checks that ensure the resulting file name actually is a valid
file name on your operating system or belongs to a file inside
of targetDir
when using the entry's name as
input.
If you want to combine an archive format with a compression
format - like when reading a "tar.gz" file - you wrap the
ArchiveInputStream
around
CompressorInputStream
for example:
try (InputStream fi = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("my.tar.gz"));
InputStream bi = new BufferedInputStream(fi);
InputStream gzi = new GzipCompressorInputStream(bi);
ArchiveInputStream o = new TarArchiveInputStream(gzi)) {
}
Common Archival Logic
Apart from 7z all formats that support writing provide a
subclass of ArchiveOutputStream
that can be used
to create an archive. For 7z SevenZOutputFile
provides a similar API that does not represent a stream as our
implementation requires random access to the output and cannot
be used for general streams. The
ZipArchiveOutputStream
class will benefit from
random access as well but can be used for non-seekable streams
- but not all features will be available and the archive size
might be slightly bigger, see the zip page for
details.
Assuming you want to add a collection of files to an
archive, you can first use createArchiveEntry
for
each file. In general this will set a few flags (usually the
last modified time, the size and the information whether this
is a file or directory) based on the File
or Path
instance. Alternatively you can create the
ArchiveEntry
subclass corresponding to your
format directly. Often you may want to set additional flags
like file permissions or owner information before adding the
entry to the archive.
Next you use putArchiveEntry
in order to add
the entry and then start using write
to add the
content of the entry - here IOUtils.copy
may
come handy. Finally you invoke
closeArchiveEntry
once you've written all content
and before you add the next entry.
Once all entries have been added you'd invoke
finish
and finally close
the
stream.
A skeleton might look like:
Collection<File> filesToArchive = ...
try (ArchiveOutputStream o = ... create the stream for your format ...) {
for (File f : filesToArchive) {
// maybe skip directories for formats like AR that don't store directories
ArchiveEntry entry = o.createArchiveEntry(f, entryName(f));
// potentially add more flags to entry
o.putArchiveEntry(entry);
if (f.isFile()) {
try (InputStream i = Files.newInputStream(f.toPath())) {
IOUtils.copy(i, o);
}
}
o.closeArchiveEntry();
}
o.finish();
}
where the hypothetical entryName
method is
written by you and provides the name for the entry as it is
going to be written to the archive.
If you want to combine an archive format with a compression
format - like when creating a "tar.gz" file - you wrap the
ArchiveOutputStream
around a
CompressorOutputStream
for example:
try (OutputStream fo = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("my.tar.gz"));
OutputStream gzo = new GzipCompressorOutputStream(fo);
ArchiveOutputStream o = new TarArchiveOutputStream(gzo)) {
}
7z
Note that Commons Compress currently only supports a subset
of compression and encryption algorithms used for 7z archives.
For writing only uncompressed entries, LZMA, LZMA2, BZIP2 and
Deflate are supported - in addition to those reading supports
AES-256/SHA-256 and DEFLATE64.
Writing multipart archives is not supported at
all. Multipart archives can be read by concatenating the parts
for example by using
MultiReadOnlySeekableByteChannel
.
7z archives can use multiple compression and encryption
methods as well as filters combined as a pipeline of methods
for its entries. Prior to Compress 1.8 you could only specify
a single method when creating archives - reading archives
using more than one method has been possible before. Starting
with Compress 1.8 it is possible to configure the full
pipeline using the setContentMethods
method of
SevenZOutputFile
. Methods are specified in the
order they appear inside the pipeline when creating the
archive, you can also specify certain parameters for some of
the methods - see the Javadocs of
SevenZMethodConfiguration
for details.
When reading entries from an archive the
getContentMethods
method of
SevenZArchiveEntry
will properly represent the
compression/encryption/filter methods but may fail to
determine the configuration options used. As of Compress 1.8
only the dictionary size used for LZMA2 can be read.
Currently solid compression - compressing multiple files
as a single block to benefit from patterns repeating across
files - is only supported when reading archives. This also
means compression ratio will likely be worse when using
Commons Compress compared to the native 7z executable.
Reading or writing requires a
SeekableByteChannel
that will be obtained
transparently when reading from or writing to a file. The
class
org.apache.commons.compress.utils.SeekableInMemoryByteChannel
allows you to read from or write to an in-memory archive.
Some 7z archives don't contain any names for the archive
entries. The native 7zip tools derive a default name from the
name of the archive itself for such entries. Starting with
Compress 1.19 SevenZFile
has an option to mimic
this behavior, but by default unnamed archive entries will
return null
from
SevenZArchiveEntry#getName
.
Adding an entry to a 7z archive:
SevenZOutputFile sevenZOutput = new SevenZOutputFile(file);
SevenZArchiveEntry entry = sevenZOutput.createArchiveEntry(fileToArchive, name);
sevenZOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
sevenZOutput.write(contentOfEntry);
sevenZOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
Uncompressing a given 7z archive (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(new File("archive.7z"));
SevenZArchiveEntry entry = sevenZFile.getNextEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
sevenZFile.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Uncompressing a given in-memory 7z archive:
byte[] inputData; // 7z archive contents
SeekableInMemoryByteChannel inMemoryByteChannel = new SeekableInMemoryByteChannel(inputData);
SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(inMemoryByteChannel);
SevenZArchiveEntry entry = sevenZFile.getNextEntry();
sevenZFile.read(); // read current entry's data
Encrypted 7z Archives
Currently Compress supports reading but not writing of
encrypted archives. When reading an encrypted archive a
password has to be provided to one of
SevenZFile
's constructors. If you try to read
an encrypted archive without specifying a password a
PasswordRequiredException
(a subclass of
IOException
) will be thrown.
When specifying the password as a byte[]
one
common mistake is to use the wrong encoding when creating
the byte[]
from a String
. The
SevenZFile
class expects the bytes to
correspond to the UTF16-LE encoding of the password. An
example of reading an encrypted archive is
SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(new File("archive.7z"), "secret".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_16LE));
SevenZArchiveEntry entry = sevenZFile.getNextEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
sevenZFile.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Starting with Compress 1.17 new constructors have been
added that accept the password as char[]
rather
than a byte[]
. We recommend you use these in
order to avoid the problem above.
SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(new File("archive.7z"), "secret".toCharArray());
SevenZArchiveEntry entry = sevenZFile.getNextEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
sevenZFile.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Random-Access to 7z Archives
Prior to Compress 1.20 7z archives could only be read
sequentially. The
getInputStream(SevenZArchiveEntry)
method
introduced with Compress 1.20 now provides random access but
at least when the archive uses solid compression random access
will likely be significantly slower than sequential
access.
Recovering from Certain Broken 7z Archives
SevenZFile
tries
to recover archives that look as if they were part of a
multi-volume archive where the first volume has been removed
too early.
This option has to be enabled
explicitly in SevenZFile.Builder
. The way recovery
works is by Compress scanning an archive from the end for
something that might look like valid 7z metadata and use that,
if it can successfully parse the block of data. When doing so
Compress may encounter blocks of metadata that look like the
metadata of very large archives which in turn may make
Compress allocate a lot of memory. Therefore we strongly
recommend you also set a memory limit inside the
SevenZFile.Builder
if you enable recovery.
ar
In addition to the information stored
in ArchiveEntry
a ArArchiveEntry
stores information about the owner user and group as well as
Unix permissions.
Adding an entry to an ar archive:
ArArchiveEntry entry = new ArArchiveEntry(name, size);
arOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
arOutput.write(contentOfEntry);
arOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
Reading entries from an ar archive:
ArArchiveEntry entry = (ArArchiveEntry) arInput.getNextEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
arInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Traditionally the AR format doesn't allow file names longer
than 16 characters. There are two variants that circumvent
this limitation in different ways, the GNU/SRV4 and the BSD
variant. Commons Compress 1.0 to 1.2 can only read archives
using the GNU/SRV4 variant, support for the BSD variant has
been added in Commons Compress 1.3. Commons Compress 1.3
also optionally supports writing archives with file names
longer than 16 characters using the BSD dialect, writing
the SVR4/GNU dialect is not supported.
Version of Apache Commons Compress |
Support for Traditional AR Format |
Support for GNU/SRV4 Dialect |
Support for BSD Dialect |
1.0 to 1.2 |
read/write |
read |
- |
1.3 and later |
read/write |
read |
read/write |
It is not possible to detect the end of an AR archive in a
reliable way so ArArchiveInputStream
will read
until it reaches the end of the stream or fails to parse the
stream's content as AR entries.
arj
Note that Commons Compress doesn't support compressed,
encrypted or multi-volume ARJ archives, yet.
Uncompressing a given arj archive (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
ArjArchiveEntry entry = arjInput.getNextEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
arjInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
cpio
In addition to the information stored
in ArchiveEntry
a CpioArchiveEntry
stores various attributes including information about the
original owner and permissions.
The cpio package supports the "new portable" as well as the
"old" format of CPIO archives in their binary, ASCII and
"with CRC" variants.
Adding an entry to a cpio archive:
CpioArchiveEntry entry = new CpioArchiveEntry(name, size);
cpioOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
cpioOutput.write(contentOfEntry);
cpioOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
Reading entries from an cpio archive:
CpioArchiveEntry entry = cpioInput.getNextCPIOEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
cpioInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Traditionally CPIO archives are written in blocks of 512
bytes - the block size is a configuration parameter of the
Cpio*Stream
's constructors. Starting with version
1.5 CpioArchiveInputStream
will consume the
padding written to fill the current block when the end of the
archive is reached. Unfortunately many CPIO implementations
use larger block sizes so there may be more zero-byte padding
left inside the original input stream after the archive has
been consumed completely.
jar
In general, JAR archives are ZIP files, so the JAR package
supports all options provided by the ZIP package.
To be interoperable JAR archives should always be created
using the UTF-8 encoding for file names (which is the
default).
Archives created using JarArchiveOutputStream
will implicitly add a JarMarker
extra field to
the very first archive entry of the archive which will make
Solaris recognize them as Java archives and allows them to
be used as executables.
Note that ArchiveStreamFactory
doesn't
distinguish ZIP archives from JAR archives, so if you use
the one-argument createArchiveInputStream
method on a JAR archive, it will still return the more
generic ZipArchiveInputStream
.
The JarArchiveEntry
class contains fields for
certificates and attributes that are planned to be supported
in the future but are not supported as of Compress 1.0.
Adding an entry to a jar archive:
JarArchiveEntry entry = new JarArchiveEntry(name, size);
entry.setSize(size);
jarOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
jarOutput.write(contentOfEntry);
jarOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
Reading entries from an jar archive:
JarArchiveEntry entry = jarInput.getNextJarEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
jarInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
dump
In addition to the information stored
in ArchiveEntry
a DumpArchiveEntry
stores various attributes including information about the
original owner and permissions.
As of Commons Compress 1.3 only dump archives using the
new-fs format - this is the most common variant - are
supported. Right now this library supports uncompressed and
ZLIB compressed archives and can not write archives at
all.
Reading entries from an dump archive:
DumpArchiveEntry entry = dumpInput.getNextDumpEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
dumpInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Prior to version 1.5 DumpArchiveInputStream
would close the original input once it had read the last
record. Starting with version 1.5 it will not close the
stream implicitly.
tar
The TAR package has a dedicated
documentation page.
Adding an entry to a tar archive:
TarArchiveEntry entry = new TarArchiveEntry(name);
entry.setSize(size);
tarOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
tarOutput.write(contentOfEntry);
tarOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
Reading entries from an tar archive:
TarArchiveEntry entry = tarInput.getNextTarEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
tarInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
zip
The ZIP package has a dedicated
documentation page.
Adding an entry to a zip archive:
ZipArchiveEntry entry = new ZipArchiveEntry(name);
entry.setSize(size);
zipOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
zipOutput.write(contentOfEntry);
zipOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
ZipArchiveOutputStream
can use some internal
optimizations exploiting SeekableByteChannel
if it
knows it is writing to a seekable output rather than a non-seekable
stream. If you are writing to a file, you should use the
constructor that accepts a File
or
SeekableByteChannel
argument rather
than the one using an OutputStream
or the
factory method in ArchiveStreamFactory
.
Reading entries from an zip archive:
ZipArchiveEntry entry = zipInput.getNextZipEntry();
byte[] content = new byte[entry.getSize()];
LOOP UNTIL entry.getSize() HAS BEEN READ {
zipInput.read(content, offset, content.length - offset);
}
Reading entries from an zip archive using the
recommended ZipFile
class:
ZipArchiveEntry entry = zipFile.getEntry(name);
InputStream content = zipFile.getInputStream(entry);
try {
READ UNTIL content IS EXHAUSTED
} finally {
content.close();
}
Reading entries from an in-memory zip archive using
SeekableInMemoryByteChannel
and ZipFile
class:
byte[] inputData; // zip archive contents
SeekableInMemoryByteChannel inMemoryByteChannel = new SeekableInMemoryByteChannel(inputData);
ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(inMemoryByteChannel);
ZipArchiveEntry archiveEntry = zipFile.getEntry("entryName");
InputStream inputStream = zipFile.getInputStream(archiveEntry);
inputStream.read() // read data from the input stream
Creating a zip file with multiple threads:
A simple implementation to create a zip file might look like this:
public class ScatterSample {
ParallelScatterZipCreator scatterZipCreator = new ParallelScatterZipCreator();
ScatterZipOutputStream dirs = ScatterZipOutputStream.fileBased(File.createTempFile("scatter-dirs", "tmp"));
public ScatterSample() throws IOException {
}
public void addEntry(ZipArchiveEntry zipArchiveEntry, InputStreamSupplier streamSupplier) throws IOException {
if (zipArchiveEntry.isDirectory() && !zipArchiveEntry.isUnixSymlink())
dirs.addArchiveEntry(ZipArchiveEntryRequest.createZipArchiveEntryRequest(zipArchiveEntry, streamSupplier));
else
scatterZipCreator.addArchiveEntry( zipArchiveEntry, streamSupplier);
}
public void writeTo(ZipArchiveOutputStream zipArchiveOutputStream)
throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException {
dirs.writeTo(zipArchiveOutputStream);
dirs.close();
scatterZipCreator.writeTo(zipArchiveOutputStream);
}
}
Compressors
Concatenated Streams
For the bzip2, gzip and XZ formats as well as the framed
lz4 format a single compressed file
may actually consist of several streams that will be
concatenated by the command line utilities when decompressing
them. Starting with Commons Compress 1.4 the
*CompressorInputStream
s for these formats support
concatenating streams as well, but they won't do so by
default. You must use the two-arg constructor and explicitly
enable the support.
Brotli
The implementation of this package is provided by the
Google Brotli dec library.
Uncompressing a given Brotli compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.br"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
BrotliCompressorInputStream brIn = new BrotliCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = brIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
brIn.close();
bzip2
Note that BZipCompressorOutputStream
keeps
hold of some big data structures in memory. While it is
recommended for any stream that you close it as soon as
you no longer need it, this is even more important
for BZipCompressorOutputStream
.
Uncompressing a given bzip2 compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.bz2"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
BZip2CompressorInputStream bzIn = new BZip2CompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = bzIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
bzIn.close();
Compressing a given file using bzip2 (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.bz2"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
BZip2CompressorOutputStream bzOut = new BZip2CompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
bzOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
bzOut.close();
in.close();
DEFLATE
The implementation of the DEFLATE/INFLATE code used by this
package is provided by the java.util.zip
package
of the Java class library.
Uncompressing a given DEFLATE compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("some-file"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
DeflateCompressorInputStream defIn = new DeflateCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = defIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
defIn.close();
Compressing a given file using DEFLATE (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("some-file"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
DeflateCompressorOutputStream defOut = new DeflateCompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
defOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
defOut.close();
in.close();
DEFLATE64
Uncompressing a given DEFLATE64 compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("some-file"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
Deflate64CompressorInputStream defIn = new Deflate64CompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = defIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
defIn.close();
gzip
The implementation of the DEFLATE/INFLATE code used by this
package is provided by the java.util.zip
package
of the Java class library.
Uncompressing a given gzip compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.gz"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
GzipCompressorInputStream gzIn = new GzipCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = gzIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
gzIn.close();
Compressing a given file using gzip (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.gz"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
GzipCompressorOutputStream gzOut = new GzipCompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
gzOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
gzOut.close();
in.close();
LZ4
There are two different "formats" used for lz4. The format called
"block format" only contains the raw compressed data while the
other provides a higher level "frame format" - Commons
Compress offers two different stream classes for reading or
writing either format.
Uncompressing a given framed LZ4 file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.lz4"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
FramedLZ4CompressorInputStream zIn = new FramedLZ4CompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = zIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
zIn.close();
Compressing a given file using the LZ4 frame format (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.lz4"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
FramedLZ4CompressorOutputStream lzOut = new FramedLZ4CompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
lzOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
lzOut.close();
in.close();
lzma
The implementation of this package is provided by the
public domain XZ
for Java library.
Uncompressing a given LZMA compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.lzma"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
LZMACompressorInputStream lzmaIn = new LZMACompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = xzIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
lzmaIn.close();
Compressing a given file using LZMA (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.lzma"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
LZMACompressorOutputStream lzOut = new LZMACompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
lzOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
lzOut.close();
in.close();
Pack200
The Pack200 package has a dedicated
documentation page.
The implementation of this package used to be provided by
the java.util.zip
package of the Java class
library. Starting with Compress 1.21 the implementation uses
a copy of the pack200 code of the now retired Apache
Harmony™ project that ships with Compress itself.
Uncompressing a given pack200 compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.pack"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.jar"));
Pack200CompressorInputStream pIn = new Pack200CompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = pIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
pIn.close();
Compressing a given jar using pack200 (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.jar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.pack"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedInputStream(fout);
Pack200CompressorOutputStream pOut = new Pack200CompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
pOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
pOut.close();
in.close();
Snappy
There are two different "formats" used for Snappy, one only
contains the raw compressed data while the other provides a
higher level "framing format" - Commons Compress offers two
different stream classes for reading either format.
Starting with 1.12 we've added support for different
dialects of the framing format that can be specified when
constructing the stream. The STANDARD
dialect
follows the "framing format" specification while the
IWORK_ARCHIVE
dialect can be used to parse IWA
files that are part of Apple's iWork 13 format. If no dialect
has been specified, STANDARD
is used. Only the
STANDARD
format can be detected by
CompressorStreamFactory
.
Uncompressing a given framed Snappy file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.sz"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
FramedSnappyCompressorInputStream zIn = new FramedSnappyCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = zIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
zIn.close();
Compressing a given file using framed Snappy (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.sz"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
FramedSnappyCompressorOutputStream snOut = new FramedSnappyCompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
snOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
snOut.close();
in.close();
XZ
The implementation of this package is provided by the
public domain XZ
for Java library.
When you try to open an XZ stream for reading using
CompressorStreamFactory
, Commons Compress will
check whether the XZ for Java library is available. Starting
with Compress 1.9 the result of this check will be cached
unless Compress finds OSGi classes in its classpath. You can
use XZUtils#setCacheXZAvailability
to override
this default behavior.
Uncompressing a given XZ compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.xz"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
XZCompressorInputStream xzIn = new XZCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = xzIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
xzIn.close();
Compressing a given file using XZ (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.xz"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedInputStream(fout);
XZCompressorOutputStream xzOut = new XZCompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
xzOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
xzOut.close();
in.close();
Z
Uncompressing a given Z compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.Z"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
ZCompressorInputStream zIn = new ZCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = zIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
zIn.close();
Zstandard
The implementation of this package is provided by the
Zstandard JNI library.
Uncompressing a given Zstandard compressed file (you would
certainly add exception handling and make sure all streams
get closed properly):
InputStream fin = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.zstd"));
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(fin);
OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
ZstdCompressorInputStream zsIn = new ZstdCompressorInputStream(in);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = zsIn.read(buffer))) {
out.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
out.close();
zsIn.close();
Compressing a given file using the Zstandard format (you
would certainly add exception handling and make sure all
streams get closed properly):
InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar"));
OutputStream fout = Files.newOutputStream(Paths.get("archive.tar.zstd"));
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
ZstdCompressorOutputStream zOut = new ZstdCompressorOutputStream(out);
final byte[] buffer = new byte[buffersize];
int n = 0;
while (-1 != (n = in.read(buffer))) {
zOut.write(buffer, 0, n);
}
zOut.close();
in.close();